The Talisman (Easton Press, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, Collector's Edition)

xxv, 369 pp. Brown leather with gilt titles on spine, gilt edges, silk endpapers. Introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb. Illustrated by Federico Castellon. The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin.